Senorbì with its 4000 inhabitants is a center of significant rural importance.
The village was the capital of the Trexenta curatoria in the Middle Ages.
The territory of Senorbì extends on a slightly undulating plateau in which there are two rivers: the Rio Santu Teru and the Rio Cardaxius, which converge at the bridge on the State Road 547 that leads to Sant’Andrea Frius.
The area of Senorbì, and of the Trexenta more generally, was already inhabited in the pre-Nuragic age. The discovery of the famous Mater Mediterranea, a Cycladic idol from the third millennium BC. representing the mother goddess, it also testifies to the exchanges that took place with the most advanced protohistoric civilizations of the period, such as that of the Cyclades islands.
During the nuragic period the territory was inhabited continuously. Probably there were numerous nuraghi present in the territory at that time even if in the countryside of Senorbì to date there are only three nuraghes left: in Sisini, on the small hill of Simieri and on Mount Uda.
At the center of the inhabited area, arranged a radial structure articulated around Piazza S. Antonio, stands the parish church of S. Barbara which, of the original late Gothic structures, preserves the square-based bell tower, the completion of the building, which took place in the 17th century advanced with the construction of the domes stretched out on high drums, it gave it an unusual aspect in the religious architecture of the area.
